I never felt interpretation was my job.

Theories come and go, but fundamental data always remains.

No amounts of stone and bone could yield the kinds of information that the paintings gave so freely.

I go once a year to the Serengeti to see the wildebeest migrations because that means a lot to me, but I avoid Olduvai if I can because it is a ruin. It is most depressing.

I had never passed a single school exam, and clearly never would.

I'd rather be in a tent than in a house.

The first money I ever earned was for drawing stone tools.

People say things are going to be Hell without even the slightest notion of what Hell is.

It is the stupid and the ugly who have the best of it in this world

I went to Sunday School and liked the stories about Christ and the Christmas star. They were beautiful. They made you warm and happy to think about. But I didn't believe them.

He was just like summer, and she loved summer. If she had any wish, it would be to live a lifetime of summers.

Power should be a check on power.

You are loved with an everlasting love. And underneath are the everlasting arms.

I had a moral opposition to eating before dawn on the grounds that I was not a nineteenth-century Russian peasant fortifying myself for a day in the fields.

It was always a great challenge: how can I make a dreampop album that's still very Alcest, but not a ripoff - how to keep the core.

I don't blame people for their mistakes, but I do ask that they pay for them.

That's the goal. Just to go out and not try to prove anybody wrong but just let your talents speak for themselves.